Word: counterpointing
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...Sever 5 Saturday, May 13 9.15--12.15 Latin Literature Sever 29 Monday, May 15 9.15--12.15 Classics, General Paper Sever 29 9.15--12.15 Literature, Modern Authors (Honors) Sever 29 Friday, May 19 9.15--12.15 Physics Jefferson 356 2.00--5.00 Music (Harmony) Music Building Monday, May 22 2.00--5.00 Music (Counterpoint) Music Building Wednesday, May 24 2.00--5.00 Music (Orchestration) Music Building Friday, May 26 2.00--5.00 Music (History and Appreciation) Music Building
...Sever 5 Saturday, May 13 9.15--12.15 Latin Literature Sever 29 Monday, May 15 9.15--12.15 Classics, General Paper Sever 29 9.15--12.15 Literature, Modern Authors (Honors) Sever 29 Friday, May 19 9.15--12.15 Physics Jefferson 356 2.00--5.00 Music (Harmony) Music Building Monday, May 22 2.00--5.00 Music (Counterpoint) Music Building Wednesday, May 24 2.00--5.00 Music (Orchestration) Music Building Friday, May 26 2.00--5.00 Music (History and Appreciation) Music Building
Courses in the Department of Music group themselves into three chief types, according to the men who give them; technical, appreciative, and scholastic. In the fast class are the materials of musical technique--Harmony, Counterpoint, and Composition. The instructors in this branch are Professor Piston and Mr. Merritt. Professor Piston is a man of great ability, in full command of his subject, and actually engaged in musical composition. No less capable as an instructor is Mr. Merritt, enthusiastic to the last degree, with an omnivorous musical appetite. The method of instruction in these courses is based on the French system...
...bright as gold-pieces and serpentine horns made the music for Shankar to dance to. It was delicate, highly refined music for the most part which, with its single thread of melody, might have sounded monotonous to Occidental ears but for the drummers tapping and slapping a swift, intricate counterpoint, and for Shankar...
Written while Mr. Fraser was still devoting himself to a mastery of counterpoint and orchestration, these essays show a keen perception and understanding. Whether he treats of Prokofieff or Wagner, he writes with a detached and unwavering judgment. To him the greatest of music is a combination of form and inspiration. Folk songs should not be an end in themselves, but a tool in the hands of a Vaughan Williams or a Chopin for the highest realization of their possibilities. Nationalism in music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even...